Modern Warfare 2 – those three words are arguably the biggest in gaming this year, but it took just two days for problems with the game's servers to bring the thriving multiplayer community to its knees.

Speculation Wednesday pegged the PS3 multiplayer outages to a software patch released for the game Tuesday night, but those claims were laid to rest Wednesday – on Twitter, of all places.

Robert Bowling, Creative Strategist at Modern Warfare 2 developer Infinity Ward, used his Twitter handle, @fourzerotwo, to shoot down rumors and to spread information directly to the thousands of gamers looking for answers.

Here's a rundown of how Bowling debunked the myths and misunderstandings surrounding the outage, which was pegged to the failure of a server at Demonware, the third-party firm tasked with handling Modern Warfare 2 Playstation 3 multiplayer traffic:

Preliminary reports say the game sold over 1.23 million units in 24 hours in the UK. Using that number, one analyst is predicting global one-day sales of 7 million copies, which would easily beat the 6 million units sold in the first week by the previous record holder, last year's Grand Theft Auto IV.

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